Project Homeless Connect - Key Leaders Briefing

Project Homeless Connect has been identified by the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness as an innovation that can move people more quickly toward housing and stability and furthers the goals of community 10 Year Plans to end homelessness. Project Homeless Connect has now been adopted by more than 200 communities, large and small, in the U.S., Canada, and Australia.  Most participating communities organize one-stops run by volunteers offering assistance with housing, health care, legal issues, benefits enrollment, treatment and other basic needs.
In 2006, a homeless community leader brought Project Homeless Connect to Washington County.  It is now a strategy in the County's 10-year plan to end homelessness.  Since it began Washington County Project Homeless Connect has grown to include more partners and more volunteers, and thus serve more individuals in need.  It is successful as a result of the tremendous collaborative effort between numerous non-profit agencies, public organizations, faith communities and business partners.

For more information about the event, please visit the Project Homeless Connect website: www.phcwashco.org.

Vision Action Network is a partner in Project Homeless Connect and is responsible primarily for the Key Leaders Briefing held in conjunction with the event each year.  The goal of the Key Leaders Briefing is to educate our community's leaders about the issue and to engage them to be a part of the effort to end homelessness in Washington County.

Project Homeless Connect 2012 is scheduled for Friday, January 27.  More details about the Key Leaders Briefing will be available soon!

For information about Project Homeless Connect 2011, please click here to see the event report.

Link to Philip Mangano Presentation at WEA Breakfast 2012